The effect of acute exercise and psychosocial stress on fine motor skills and testosterone concentration in the saliva of high school students

Little is known about the influence of different stressors on fine motor skills, the concentration of testosterone (T), and their interaction in adolescents. Therefore, 62 high school students aged 14–15 years were randomly assigned to two experimental groups (exercise, psychosocial stress) and a control group. Exercise stress was induced at 65–75% of the maximum heart rate by running for 15 minutes (n = 24). Psychosocial stress was generated by an intelligence test (HAWIK- IV), which was uncontrollable and characterized by social-evaluative-threat to the students (n=21). The control group followed was part of a regular school lesson with the same duration (n = 28). Saliva was collected after a normal school lesson (pre-test) as well as after the intervention/control period (post-test) and was analyzed for testosterone. Fine motor skills were assessed pre- and post-intervention using a manual dexterity test (Flower Trail) from the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2. A repeated measure ANCOVA including gender as a covariate revealed a significant group by test interaction, indicating an increase in manual dexterity only for the psychosocial stress group. Correlation analysis of all students shows that the change of testosterone from pre- to post-test was directly linked (r = 2.31, p = .01) to the changes in manual dexterity performance. Participants showing high increases in testosterone from pre- to post-test made fewer mistakes in the fine motor skills task. Findings suggest that manual dexterity increases when psychosocial stress is induced and that improvement of manual dexterity performance corresponds with the increase of testosterone.

The implicit affiliation motive moderates cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress in high school students

It has been previously shown that the implicit affiliation motive – the need to establish and maintain friendly relationships with others – leads to chronic health benefits. The underlying assumption for the present research was that the implicit affiliation motive also moderates the salivary cortisol response to acute psychological stress when some aspects of social evaluation and uncontrollability are involved. By contrast we did not expect similar effects in response to exercise as a physical stressor. Fifty-nine high school students aged M = 14.8 years were randomly assigned to a psychosocial stress (publishing the results of an intelligence test performed), a physical stress (exercise intensity of 65–75% of HRmax), and a control condition (normal school lesson) each lasting 15 min. Participants’ affiliation motives were assessed using the Operant Motive Test and salivary cortisol samples were taken pre and post stressor. We found that the strength of the affiliation motive negatively predicted cortisol reactions to acute psychosocial but not to physical stress when compared to a control group. The results suggest that the affiliation motive buffers the effect of acute psychosocial stress on the HPA axis.

2.5 Missouri State Supreme Court Building, Jefferson City, Missouri

On December 12, 1936, Charles Hamilton Houston was in Jefferson City, Missouri arguing Gaines’ appeal in front of the Missouri Supreme Court. Houston added some teeth to his argument by adding that neither “the slender hope” that Gaines may someday attend a new law program at Lincoln nor the provision of tuition scholarships to attend an out-of-state law school met the US Constitution’s requirement of equal treatment regardless of race.

HISTÓRIA E MEMÓRIA DA ESCOLA NORMAL PARTICULAR DO INSTITUTO SANTA TERESA DE LORENA/SP (1964-1974)

O presente trabalho pretende mostrar, à luz da abordagem sócio-histórica ou histórico-sociológica, a formação da professora primária na Escola Normal Particular Santa Teresa, uma instituição de irmãs salesianas que se dedicam à educação em Lorena-SP desde 1954. O problema da parte da seguinte indagação: como as irmãs salesianas do Instituto Santa Teresa em Lorena/SP formaram a professora primária, no período de 1964 -1974? Os objetivos que norteiam o problema da pesquisa são: compreender os motivos da criação e extinção da Escola Normal Particular Santa Teresa; conhecer a clientela inicial e quem a freqüentou durante seu funcionamento; descrever a constituição do corpo docente; verificar a legislação pertinente a essa escola; desvelar indícios das práticas pedagógicas. O presente estudo, compreendido entre os anos de 1964 a 1974, fundamenta-se nos aportes teóricos de Mogarro, sobre os arquivos escolares; Demartini, sobre memória e relatos orais; Saviani e outros pesquisadores que tecem novas concepções históricas de instituições escolares no Brasil. A partir dos estudos dos documentos da Escola Normal e da analise dos relatos dos sujeitos ntrevistados percebe-se que: as irmãs salesianas do Instituto Santa Teresa ao formarem a moça professora tinham como finalidade a formação da moça, da mãe, da esposa, da mulher.(AU)

HISTÓRIA E MEMÓRIA DA ESCOLA NORMAL PARTICULAR DO INSTITUTO SANTA TERESA DE LORENA/SP (1964-1974)

O presente trabalho pretende mostrar, à luz da abordagem sócio-histórica ou histórico-sociológica, a formação da professora primária na Escola Normal Particular Santa Teresa, uma instituição de irmãs salesianas que se dedicam à educação em Lorena-SP desde 1954. O problema da parte da seguinte indagação: como as irmãs salesianas do Instituto Santa Teresa em Lorena/SP formaram a professora primária, no período de 1964 -1974? Os objetivos que norteiam o problema da pesquisa são: compreender os motivos da criação e extinção da Escola Normal Particular Santa Teresa; conhecer a clientela inicial e quem a freqüentou durante seu funcionamento; descrever a constituição do corpo docente; verificar a legislação pertinente a essa escola; desvelar indícios das práticas pedagógicas. O presente estudo, compreendido entre os anos de 1964 a 1974, fundamenta-se nos aportes teóricos de Mogarro, sobre os arquivos escolares; Demartini, sobre memória e relatos orais; Saviani e outros pesquisadores que tecem novas concepções históricas de instituições escolares no Brasil. A partir dos estudos dos documentos da Escola Normal e da analise dos relatos dos sujeitos ntrevistados percebe-se que: as irmãs salesianas do Instituto Santa Teresa ao formarem a moça professora tinham como finalidade a formação da moça, da mãe, da esposa, da mulher.(AU)

Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History.

Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : The Society, <1978->; Greeley, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, <1997->

Birds of the State College Region, Pennsylvania /

Cover title.

Biennial report of the Oregon State Board of Control.

Mode of access: Internet.

Independent Charter School Authorizer Task Force report /

This report of the Independent Charter School Authorizer Task Force is respectfully submitted to the Governor and the Illinois General Assembly. The task force recommends that the existing state charter school law be modified in order to improve the quality of charter school authorization throughout the state.

What the Natural History Survey is doing for the high school /

"An address delivered in the Biology Section of the State High School Conference at Urbana, November 22, 1929."--P. 1.

Library school bulletin.

Nos. 11-17, 33-54 have also the serial no. of the University of the state of New York bulletin; no. 18-32 New York state Education Dept. bulletin.

Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the State Psychopathic Hospital at the University of Michigan

Title Varies: 1871/74- First Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State Public School for Dependent Children; Biennial Report of the Board of Control of the Michigan State Public School for Dependent and Ill-Treated Children

Annual Report of the Inspector of State High Schools

Mode of access: Internet.

Guide leaflet, geological science field trip, Bloomington-Normal area : McLean County, Danvers, LeRoy, McLean, and Normal quadrangles /

May 4, 1957.

Library School News Letter

Mode of access: Internet.